Something must have improved at Ipswich City Council over the past six months.
This week we reported the role of deputy mayor would be passing over from Councillor Marnie Doyle to another new face in the chambers, Councillor Nicole Jonic. Cr Nicole Jonic has been voted in as deputy mayor.
It wasn’t a unanimous decision, despite an earlier pledge by the new-look council to rotate the deputy position every 12 months.
Four out of the nine votes were for Cr Doyle to stay in the role. Cr Doyle’s vote was one of the four, which was interesting to see, especially given the fact she briefly resigned from the position last September, before changing her mind and coming back.
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FORMER workers at the Bradken foundry have lamented the loss of the longstanding Ipswich factory and the state of the wider Australian manufacturing industry after it closed last week.
But some hold on to hope it will be bought by another company and operations will be restarted.
About 180 workers at the Karrabin site have lost their jobs with the facility closing in stages until it completely shuts down at the end of July. Former Bradken workers had a drink at the Walloon Saloon Hotel after the company shut down its Ipswich foundry on Friday, April 23.
At its peak there were about 400 people working across three shifts a day and pouring about 35 tonnes of metal around the clock.
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MYSTERY surrounds some of the actions of an unlicensed driver who caused a potentially dangerous situation for a motorcycle police officer during a pursuit.
No police facts were stated on the public record by the prosecutor when the matter went before an open court in Ipswich.
The offences took place just one day before an existing suspended jail term ended for Zackery Bucknall.
Magistrate Andy Cridland was also silent on the precise facts on the dangerous driving when he finalised the case.
As such the Queensland Times (unless it pays money to the court to buy the agreed facts) cannot tell you exactly what took place despite the offences occurring out in the community on public roads.
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